[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] Fixing to avoid invalid kfree() in cifs_get_tcp_session() of fs/cifs/connect.c

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 12:37:39 MDT 2009


> Hi,
>
> I found a trivial bug in fs/cifs/connect.c .
> The bug is caused by fail of extract_hostname()
> when mounting cifs file system.
>
> This is the situation when I noticed this bug.
>
> % sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.10.208 mountpoint -o options...
>
> Then my kernel says,
>
> [ 1461.807776] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 1461.807781] kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:521!
> [ 1461.807784] invalid opcode: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 1461.807790] last sysfs file:
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:09:02.0/resource
> [ 1461.807793] CPU 0
> [ 1461.807796] Modules linked in: nls_iso8859_1 usbhid sbp2 uhci_hcd
> ehci_hcd i2c_i801 ohci1394 ieee1394 psmouse serio_raw pcspkr sky2 usbcore
> evdev
> [ 1461.807816] Pid: 3446, comm: mount Tainted: G      D 2.6.32-rc2-vanilla
> #1 System Product Name
> [ 1461.807820] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b888e>]  [<ffffffff810b888e>]
> kfree+0x63/0x156
> [ 1461.807829] RSP: 0018:ffff8800b4f7fbb8  EFLAGS: 00010046
> [ 1461.807832] RAX: ffffea00033fff98 RBX: ffff8800afbae7e2 RCX:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 1461.807836] RDX: ffffea0000000000 RSI: 000000000000005c RDI:
> ffffffffffffffea
> [ 1461.807839] RBP: ffff8800b4f7fbf8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 1461.807842] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff8800b4f7fbf8 R12:
> 00000000ffffffea
> [ 1461.807845] R13: ffff8800afb23000 R14: ffff8800b4f87bc0 R15:
> ffffffffffffffea
> [ 1461.807849] FS:  00007f52b6f187c0(0000) GS:ffff880007600000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 1461.807852] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
> [ 1461.807855] CR2: 0000000000613000 CR3: 00000000af8f9000 CR4:
> 00000000000006f0
> [ 1461.807858] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
> 0000000000000000
> [ 1461.807861] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
> 0000000000000400
> [ 1461.807865] Process mount (pid: 3446, threadinfo ffff8800b4f7e000, task
> ffff8800950e4380)
> [ 1461.807867] Stack:
> [ 1461.807869]  0000000000000202 0000000000000282 ffff8800b4f7fbf8
> ffff8800afbae7e2
> [ 1461.807876] <0> 00000000ffffffea ffff8800afb23000 ffff8800b4f87bc0
> ffff8800b4f7fc28
> [ 1461.807884] <0> ffff8800b4f7fcd8 ffffffff81159f6d ffffffff81147bc2
> ffffffff816bfb48
> [ 1461.807892] Call Trace:
> [ 1461.807899]  [<ffffffff81159f6d>] cifs_get_tcp_session+0x440/0x44b
> [ 1461.807904]  [<ffffffff81147bc2>] ? find_nls+0x1c/0xe9
> [ 1461.807909]  [<ffffffff8115b889>] cifs_mount+0x16bc/0x2167
> [ 1461.807917]  [<ffffffff814455bd>] ? _spin_unlock+0x30/0x4b
> [ 1461.807923]  [<ffffffff81150da9>] cifs_get_sb+0xa5/0x1a8
> [ 1461.807928]  [<ffffffff810c1b94>] vfs_kern_mount+0x56/0xc9
> [ 1461.807933]  [<ffffffff810c1c64>] do_kern_mount+0x47/0xe7
> [ 1461.807938]  [<ffffffff810d8632>] do_mount+0x712/0x775
> [ 1461.807943]  [<ffffffff810d671f>] ? copy_mount_options+0xcf/0x132
> [ 1461.807948]  [<ffffffff810d8714>] sys_mount+0x7f/0xbf
> [ 1461.807953]  [<ffffffff8144509a>] ? lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67
> [ 1461.807960]  [<ffffffff81011cc2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [ 1461.807963] Code: 00 00 00 00 ea ff ff 48 c1 e8 0c 48 6b c0 68 48 01 d0
> 66 83 38 00 79 04 48 8b 40 10 66 83 38 00 79 04 48 8b 40 10 80 38 00 78 04
> <0f> 0b eb fe 4c 8b 70 58 4c 89 ff 41 8b 76 4c e8 b8 49 fb ff e8
> [ 1461.808022] RIP  [<ffffffff810b888e>] kfree+0x63/0x156
> [ 1461.808027]  RSP <ffff8800b4f7fbb8>
> [ 1461.808031] ---[ end trace ffe26fcdc72c0ce4 ]---
>
> The reason of this bug is that the error handling code of
> cifs_get_tcp_session()
> calls kfree() when corresponding kmalloc() failed.
> (The kmalloc() is called by extract_hostname().)
>
> So I fixed a little. This is the patch. Please use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake at dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index 43003e0..b090980 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -1577,7 +1577,8 @@ cifs_get_tcp_session(struct smb_vol *volume_info)
>
>  out_err:
>                 if (tcp_ses) {
> -                                kfree(tcp_ses->hostname);
> +                                if (!IS_ERR(tcp_ses->hostname))
> +                                                kfree(tcp_ses->hostname);
>                                 if (tcp_ses->ssocket)
>  sock_release(tcp_ses->ssocket);
>                                 kfree(tcp_ses);


Merged into cifs-2.6.git - thx



-- 
Thanks,

Steve


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